Tag: Prasad Iyer
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A wartime disaster that led to a cure in oncology
Prasad IyerSingapore In the harbor of Bari on the night of December 2, 1943, the German Luftwaffe punctured the Italian coastline with fire and hit the SS John Harvey, a ship secretly carrying two thousand mustard gas bombs. A toxic soup of fuel oil and chemical agents blanketed the water and clung to the skin…
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The guinea pig’s gift: Serendipity and the starvation of leukemia
Prasad IyerSingapore Medical breakthroughs often arrive not with a fanfare of logic, but with the quiet, baffling persistence of a laboratory anomaly that refuses to be ignored. In 1953, the laboratories of Cornell University Medical College operated in a world away from the high-stakes precision of modern oncology. Dr. John Kidd was not hunting for…
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Roots and routes
Prasad IyerSingapore Dr. Arjun Mehta stood at the balcony of his Mumbai apartment, gazing out at the chaotic tapestry of the city he once called home. The cacophony of honking horns, aroma of street food, and vibrant saris in the bustling streets below stirred a complex mix of emotions within him. After two decades in…
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Hope quarantined
Prasad IyerSingapore Poet’s statement This fictional poem expresses the feelings of a migrant separated from his family during the COVID pandemic. Hope quarantined Quarantine forceth divorced soulsDistanced families and broken wholesShards of thoughts, impaling my core Locked down borders’ hearts a sore Shallow slumber, uneasy sense Worries, anxieties common hence. Weeks and months in the twilight zoneTogether in…